Category: News

Tweet Evgeni Vakov and Zuzanna Marciniak report on the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics. PyeongChang’s long awaited Olympics Games were finally opened during a spectacular ceremony at the purposely built open air PyeongChang Olympic Stadium. It has been 1 448 days since the closing ceremony of the Sochi games four years ago and the wait is finally over, the world is Winter Olympiad once again. As usual for most of the ceremonies, local culture and legends were used to create the stunning event, a climax of over…

Tweet Over the last week, University of Brighton journalism students have worked tirelessly in our Eastbourne and Hastings Newsrooms to create content for the Overtime and Overtime Online publications. Based on research and feedback from students, this years editorial team took a different approach in order to produce a more student-focused magazine. Fiona McGeever caught up with editors Kieran McGinley and Adam Powers to discuss the vision behind this revamped magazine-style edition. All smiles as the first edition of the newly revamped Overtime magazine goes to print! @OverTime_Online…

Tweet November 2017 has brought a new kind of newsweek. First, second and third year journalism students spent five full working days writing articles and editing pages to create a magazine filled with interesting features and investigative pieces. The Overtime Online production, which is in its fourth incarnation, takes the form of a magazine for the first time. With the finished product due to be printed and distributed across Sussex this Winter, we took a look behind the scenes at the purpose of the exercise.

A huge number of Volkswagen cars are yet to be fixed after they were fitted with software to cheat emissions testing, new figures show.
The German car firm caused uproar back in September 2015 when it was discovered it was fitting “defeat device” software to 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide.
Mary Creagh, chair of the commons environmental audit committee, says the rate at which vehicles are being fixed has “stalled.”

Tweet By Natacha Andueza Bosch Saying ‘thanks’ to their funding, anyone with a National Lottery ticket or a scratchcard can opt to go into the 400 National Lottery-funded heritage attractions across the UK also they are offering other treats and discounts. The organisations include in participation are: The Roman Baths, Bath; Portsmouth Historic Dockyard; Lincoln Cathedral; and Royal Academy. If you want to know about more of the offers available check the National Lottery website from the beginning of December for more details and a list of attractions taking part….

Tweet By Adam Benfell The £36 million project is designed to have robots work in hazardous offshore environments. It is believed by experts that it will reduce the need for humans to work at offshore energy platforms. New graduates are looking for safer onshore jobs and the project leaders believe new technology is needed to keep the offshore industry economically viable. Professor David Lane, director of the ORCA (Offshore Robotics for Certification of Assets) Hub, said: “The offshore workforce is ageing as the new generation of qualified graduates seek less…

Sport

Tweet Evgeni Vakov and Zuzanna Marciniak bring you all the action from day eight of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Great Britain’s Lizzy Yarnolds became the first ever women to defend her Olympic skeleton title after edging out German Jacqueline Loelling by 0.45 seconds. Bronze went to another Britt Laura Deas who was just 0.17 seconds out of the silver medal. Yarnolds was second before the fourth runs 0.02 behind Austria’s Janine Flock but a new track record in the final run allowed her to retain her gold medal….

Tweet Evgeni Vakov and Zuzanna Marciniak bring you all the action from day seven of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Dom Parsons won Britain’s first medal of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games taking bronze in the men’s skeleton. If you have just woken up 🌅 we’re pleased to say that @domparsons has secured Team GB’s first medal with 🥉 in the skeleton! Make sure you check out the highlights on @BBCSport or @Eurosport_UK #WeAreTheGreat 🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/FTeXFHnACB — Team GB (@TeamGB) February 16, 2018 The race however was all…

Tweet Evgeni Vakov and Zuzanna Marciniak bring you all the action from day six of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Norway finally won their first men’s downhill gold medal thanks to 35-years-old veteran Aksel Lund Svindal, who also is now the oldest Olympic alpine gold medallist Svindal edged compatriot Kjetil Jansrud by 0.12 seconds while current world champion Beat Feuz from Switzerland finished a further 0.06 behind. Sochi winner Matthias Mayer from Austria did not manage to repeat his performance from four years ago and finished in ninth place….

Culture

Tweet It’s that time of year again where people have made their New Year’s resolutions and are now waiting for all the best festival line-ups to be announced; we have some great news… Spring Break Amsterdam Festival have released their incredible 2018 line-up for the three-day metro-festival. The acts revealed include Chase & Status (DJ set), Shy FX, Wiley, General Levy, Big Narstie and High Contrast, plus many more. The festival takes place on Sunday 8th, Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th April and tickets are already selling extremely fast. The…

Tweet It’s almost Christmas and a spontaneous trip lends you 24 hours to explore Munich, the capital of Bavaria, so what does one do? If you are anything like me, you get on the old interweb and do a spot of investigating as you pass the journey to Gatwick at ridiculous o’clock in the morning. Recent news stories have lowered Tripadvisor in your estimation, so you delve a little further. Travel and food writers are my ubiquitous go-to. I want to see the sights and get a flavour of München in…

Tweet Many vegans and activists for the cause have been likened to that of extremist cults, but this is not the case at all. As a student recently starting my course and living in Eastbourne, I was astounded by how alien the lifestyle of residents here appears to that of Brighton. Neighbour to one of the most vegan friendly recognised cities in the UK, Eastbourne seems to have so little acknowledgement for the dietary movement and the benefits it evokes. This lack of awareness stirred up confusion in my mind and…

Following the recent release of their album, Our Pleasure, the no-frills-attached notorious Canadian four-piece punk rock band Single Mothers hit the Green Door Store in Brighton on November 15 as part of their UK/Europe tour.